Dear Kanye,
You’ve got a new album out, and need to promote it by shouting off your legendarily loud mouth.
I get it.
Only this can possibly explain your recent behaviour, which has been ridiculously offensive even by your standards.
I’ve
been a long-time admirer of yours. I think you’re a brilliantly
talented musician and one of the great characters of the global
entertainment industry.
You’re controversial, polarising, and speak your mind. Nothing wrong with that, I’m exactly the same.
But
there’s a fine line between being entertainingly outrageous, and just
being repellent, and in the past two weeks you’ve not just crossed that
line, you’ve smashed it to smithereens in your desperation to offend.
This
bizarre process began with your ridiculous spat with fellow rapper Wiz
Khalifa, where in a grotesque misunderstanding of something he’d
tweeted, you went on a Twitter rampage in which you gratuitously
insulted his wife, your former girlfriend Amber Rose, by calling her a
gold-digging stripper.
Worse,
you dragged his little son Sebastian into it too, in a quite despicable
manner, inferring he wouldn’t even exist if you hadn’t ditched his
mother.
I
wrote then that you had behaved in a ‘pathetic, petty and woefully
insensitive’ manner by using a man’s child to humiliate him.
But that, it turned out, was just the warm-up act to your main performance of quite breath-taking crassness.
Three days ago, you suddenly tweeted, for no apparent reason: ‘BILL COSBY IS INNOCENT!!!!!!’
Something that literally nobody else on Planet Earth believes.In fact, I seriously doubt even Bill Cosby believes it.By
informing your 18.6 million followers of this sentiment, you also
effectively informed them that the 50 women who have so far come forward
to claim Cosby drugged, raped or abused them are all fakes.
You’re
implying they’ve all made up their stories to smear a once revered
national icon. Yes, every one of those 50 women is a liar apparently.
As so often, you offered no explanation for your incendiary comment.You just stuck it out to ignite a media firestorm and help flog your new record.
I’m
sure there must have been a more shameless, disgraceful exploitation of
serious sexual assault in the history of the music industry, I just
can’t off hand think of one.
Today, you shifted your line of attack to yet another woman, Taylor Swift.
A nice,
decent young lady who’s done nothing to deserve your opprobrium other
than the fact you once decided to charge the VMAs stage as Taylor
accepted an award, furious that your friend Beyoncé hadn’t won it
instead.
It
emerged on Thursday that the lyric to Famous, one of the tracks on your
new album, contains this line: ‘I feel like me and Taylor might still
have sex. I made that b*tch famous.’
Aside
from the obvious disrespect to your wife Kim Kardashian West, it’s a
thoroughly unpleasant and sexist thing to say to Taylor Swift.
It was also untrue, she was already a hugely successful recording artist before you ruined her award-winning moment.
As
news of this new vile slur spread, and anger erupted on social media
led by Taylor’s brother, you decided that attack was the best form of
defence.
You went on
another Twitter rampage in which you declared that you’d cleared this
lyric with Taylor. In fact, it was all HER idea.
Wow, really? That would change everything.No, not really.
Taylor’s representatives quickly made it very clear that your claims are a pack of lies.
1) She hadn’t in fact approved any such lyric.
2) She didn’t even know about the ‘I made that b*tch famous’ part,.
3) She specifically ‘cautioned’ you about ‘releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message.’
As always when hoisted by your own petard, Kanye, you chose to blame everyone else for failing to understand you.
‘Stop
trying to demonize real artist,’ you raged, ‘that’s why music’s so
f***ing watered down right now. They want to control us with money and
perception and mute the culture.’
No mate, with the greatest of respect, that’s a load of old c-rap.Nobody’s demonizing any artist around here.
We just find your recent public behaviour towards women profoundly wrong.
You can say what you like in private, that’s your business.
But
when you go on a global platform like Twitter and act like a slathering
pig, it’s our right to say: ‘Shut the **** up Kanye.’
I’m astonished that your wife Kim doesn’t stop you doing this.
Despite all the mockery she gets, I’ve always admired her for being a hard-working, empowered, independent woman.
Why would she enjoy seeing her husband berating other hard-working, empowered, independent women in such a degrading way?
You insisted in one of your latest blizzard of tweets, ‘I asked my wife for her blessings and she was cool with it.’
Hmmm, I find that very hard to believe frankly.
Kim’s ‘cool’ with you suggesting you want to have sex with Taylor Swift? Kim’s ‘cool’ with you calling Taylor a ‘b*tch?’
In fact, Kim’s not just ‘cool’ with it, she offered her ‘blessings’?If she did, then Kim’s let herself down almost as much as you have.
More to the point, you’ve both let your children down.Why would you want them to think that’s how men should speak about women in public?
I’m disappointed in you, Kanye.You’re better than this.It’s not ‘cool’ to be so overtly offensive to women.Not now you’re a husband and father.
Grow up.
source: dailymail
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